Boston - DCF takes custody of four children found in unsanitary apartment with alcohol, drugs, sex toys and a dead body

June 21, 2023

DCF takes custody of four children found in apartment with alcohol, drugs, sex toys, Healey says

Four children who were found in a disturbing South Boston apartment alongside a dead man…

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Four children who were found in a disturbing South Boston apartment alongside a dead man over the weekend have been taken into state custody as officials investigate why they were in the presence of alcohol, drugs, and sex toys, Gov. Maura Healey said Wednesday.

A Boston Fire Department incident report said first responders found the children, who are 5 to 10 years old, on Saturday morning in “extremely unsanitary conditions” and in a back bedroom where an adult male was in the process of hiding them.

First responders were initially called to the Mary Ellen McCormack Housing complex on Old Colony Avenue on Saturday for a man that went into cardiac arrest.
But when they arrived, firefighters found “drugs, alcohol, [and] sex toys all around the apartment,”
six other adults, “who appeared to be male, were seen in the apartment.” Sources tell the Herald the men were dressed in drag.

“All of the adult parties were being uncooperative and did not provide helpful information. All adults present denied having children inside the apartment,” the incident report said. the incident is still under investigation.

Why were children present and why has this story not appeared in more MSM?

 

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Toxic mix: South Boston death was caused by cocaine and meth, medical examiner’s office says
By GAYLA CAWLEY | gcawley@bostonherald.com | Boston Herald
PUBLISHED: August 7, 2023 at 8:42 p.m. | UPDATED: August 7, 2023 at 9:16 p.m.

An accidental drug overdose killed the transgender person who died at a South Boston apartment complex where four children were removed in June, the state medical examiner’s office said.

The cause of death was determined to be “acute intoxication due to the combined effects of cocaine and methamphetamine,” a spokesperson for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner told the Herald on Monday.

The manner of death is listed as an accident.

A city death certificate identifies the victim as Giovanni Murray, a 26-year-old man described in a Boston Police Department report as a “male to female transgender” person.

The Suffolk District Attorney’s office is “conducting a standard death investigation” of what the medical examiner ruled to be a drug overdose, “as well as a fact-finding inquiry into other issues present in the incident,” a spokesperson for the DA Kevin Hayden told the Herald.

The spokesperson declined to say what those “other issues” pertain to.

The June 17 death at 381 Old Colony Ave., otherwise known as the Mary Ellen McCormack public housing complex, drew conflicting reports from the Boston Police and Fire Departments.

Both, however, filed 51A child abuse or neglect reports with the Department of Children and Families.
What was agreed upon was that the Boston Fire Department and EMS both responded first to a report of an unconscious person at the apartment.

The fire department reported at the time that the person had gone into cardiac arrest from an apparent drug overdose, a matter that police appeared to dispute in a statement it made days after the incident occurred.

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More at link. ~Summer

 

[RoundPeg]

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Toxic mix: South Boston death was caused by cocaine and meth, medical examiner’s office says
By GAYLA CAWLEY | gcawley@bostonherald.com | Boston Herald
PUBLISHED: August 7, 2023 at 8:42 p.m. | UPDATED: August 7, 2023 at 9:16 p.m.

An accidental drug overdose killed the transgender person who died at a South Boston apartment complex where four children were removed in June, the state medical examiner’s office said.

The cause of death was determined to be “acute intoxication due to the combined effects of cocaine and methamphetamine,” a spokesperson for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner told the Herald on Monday.

The manner of death is listed as an accident.

A city death certificate identifies the victim as Giovanni Murray, a 26-year-old man described in a Boston Police Department report as a “male to female transgender” person.

The Suffolk District Attorney’s office is “conducting a standard death investigation” of what the medical examiner ruled to be a drug overdose, “as well as a fact-finding inquiry into other issues present in the incident,” a spokesperson for the DA Kevin Hayden told the Herald.

The spokesperson declined to say what those “other issues” pertain to.

The June 17 death at 381 Old Colony Ave., otherwise known as the Mary Ellen McCormack public housing complex, drew conflicting reports from the Boston Police and Fire Departments.

Both, however, filed 51A child abuse or neglect reports with the Department of Children and Families.
What was agreed upon was that the Boston Fire Department and EMS both responded first to a report of an unconscious person at the apartment.

The fire department reported at the time that the person had gone into cardiac arrest from an apparent drug overdose, a matter that police appeared to dispute in a statement it made days after the incident occurred.

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More at link. ~Summer

I always felt like there was a bit of scrambling to cover up the facts and protect the interests of the public housing reputation.

 

[Mel70]

Yes. Alot about this case doesn't make sense. And information has been kept silent. I still don't see how a transgender person living there is pertinent. The point is ALL the adults there are sumbags. Locally, A public housing complex is in big trouble for violations. I've been looking for subsidized housing since July 2019. And I have been on disability sice 2007. But I couldn't get into a program until 2019. There is always an excuse not to help me. Affordable housing is really bad here. Well, And just about everything else. I won't list them. My phone would run out of letters.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I agree on the public housing thing and they've kept this so tamped down with lack of news that yeah, I'm sure it isn't widespread and known.

There also was though I think there a lot of scrambling that we have children present, a transgender person and extreme drug use, let's not be numb to COCAINE and METH and sex toys and children present and the other reasons other than the rep of public housing for trying to keep this tamped down.

They talk of other issues present. NO SH*T.

I am so certain these children were safe and never touched even at least in a virtual way as to what they were seeing, living and dealing with. NOT. And I'd guess worse than that.

This one is full of hot button things. Also then brings in a council woman who doesn't safeguard her own child and drives without a right and more.

No politics here in a world gone wrong where the results and decisions that have been made and people who are idiots put in place and voted in done gone wrong. Nothing to see here. Ya know, easy peasy, just give people what they want, let them out of jail, even make drugs legal and hand them out with needles, that kind of attitude/ideal it just works ya know. Not meaning all of that to this case specifically but I do mean it as to the big overall pic of the world today.

And a ton of side issues. The children first and foremost. The council woman's child ALSO. And psheesh decent Americans can't get public housing but perhaps if they were trans, battling drugs, and with this were allowed their children around it (housing need for people with children then even if part time/joint custody) then YES. Automatic. YES I am being in this paragraph sarcastic. To each their own but it doesn't excuse behavior and laws and responsibility. Or does it these days?

Idiots run our world. Yeah I know that is bigger than this case. But it is what is going on and plays in. And just to be clear, I am not talking just one side. Most politicians have never lived in the real world a day in their lives. Nor do they understand it. Of course some they are putting into office these days do...

Not going into politics just saying most, just like most Hollywood actors/resses don't know the real world, average world.

Also want to make it clear I am not talking at you or anyone but at this case and the bigger stuff that makes it more shoved under the rug. Memory is a bit foggy but I think I have it right, I would trust the fire department people's statements over the cops. Just with who is run more by politics and agendas ALTHOUGH both are in bigger cities.

Not fully formed thoughts but I'd say in this case sad as it is that although foster care could likely have put them with some bad person, these kids don't belong with the mother either OR father from what I recall here.... So not sure that could be any worse.

Cocaine AND meth.

 

[Mel70]

I agree on the public housing thing and they've kept this so tamped down with lack of news that yeah, I'm sure it isn't widespread and known.

There also was though I think there a lot of scrambling that we have children present, a transgender person and extreme drug use, let's not be numb to COCAINE and METH and sex toys and children present and the other reasons other than the rep of public housing for trying to keep this tamped down.

They talk of other issues present. NO SH*T.

I am so certain these children were safe and never touched even at least in a virtual way as to what they were seeing, living and dealing with. And I'd guess worse than that.

This one is full of hot button things. Also then brings in a council woman who doesn't safeguard here own child and drives without a right and more.

No politics here in a world gone wrong where the results and decisions that have been made and people who are idiots put in place and voted in done gone wrong. Nothing to see here. Ya know, easy peasy, just give people what they want, let them out of jail, even make drugs legal and hand them out with needles, that kind of attitude/ideal it just works ya know. Not meaning all of that to this case specifically but I do mean it as to the big overall pic of the world today.

And a ton of side issues. The children first and foremost. The council woman's child ALSO. And psheesh decent Americans can't get public housing but perhaps if they were trans, battling drugs, and with this were allowed their children around it (housing need for people with children then even if part time/joint custody) then YES. Automatic. YES I am being in this paragraph sarcastic. To each their own but it doesn't excuse behavior and laws and responsibility. Or does it these days?

Idiots run our world. Yeah I know that is bigger than this case. But it is what is going on and plays in. And just to be clear, I am not talking just one side. Most politicians have never lived in the real world a day in their lives. Nor do they understand it. Of course some they are putting into office these days do...

Not going into politics just saying most, just like most Hollywood actors/resses don't know the real world, average world.

Also want to make it clear I am not talking at you or anyone but at this case and the bigger stuff that makes it more shoved under the rug. Memory is a bit foggy but I think I have it right, I would trust the fired department people's statements over the cops. Just with who is run more by politics and agendas ALTHOUGH both are in bigger cities.

Not fully formed thoughts but I'd say in this case sad as it is that foster care could likely have put them with some bad person, these kids don't belong with the mother either from what I recall here....

Cocaine AND meth.

Amen sister!!!!

 

[GrandmaBear]

Locally, A public housing complex is in big trouble for violations. I've been looking for subsidized housing since July 2019. And I have been on disability sice 2007. But I couldn't get into a program until 2019. There is always an excuse not to help me. Affordable housing is really bad here. Well, And just about everything else. I won't list them. My phone would run out of letters.

I just kind of touched on that. We must have been doing posts at the same time. If you were trans though, or played the game where one in your household had their children part time, or were a minority, ya know you'd be IN. It is despicable what goes on in this world and who they help and don't help. And I am NOT knocking nor judging trans, minorities, drug users or anyone else. But you aren't any of those and won't go rent a child, so you aren't even on the list if you think you are...

 

[Mel70]

That's funny. We were simultaneously posting. And alot was the same points. And, How are you my dear friend?. I wuw you.
Annnnd....

 

[Mel70]

I just kind of touched on that. We must have been doing posts at the same time. If you were trans though, or played the game where one in your household had their children part time, or were a minority, ya know you'd be IN. It is despicable what goes on in this world and who they help and don't help. And I am NOT knocking nor judging trans, minorities, drug users or anyone else. But you aren't any of those and won't go rent a child, so you aren't even on the list if you think you are...

I've applied on every list that has opened l. Some cities have their own lists. Some counties. Some complexes. I have a housing file. It is THICK.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Amen sister!!!!

Right??

 

[Mel70]

I just kind of touched on that. We must have been doing posts at the same time. If you were trans though, or played the game where one in your household had their children part time, or were a minority, ya know you'd be IN. It is despicable what goes on in this world and who they help and don't help. And I am NOT knocking nor judging trans, minorities, drug users or anyone else. But you aren't any of those and won't go rent a child, so you aren't even on the list if you think you are...

I have seen wayyyy too much of that. Adopting, Fostering for a check!!!! I have my dad to look after. And deal with my own problems.a child is a child. NOT a check. I was watching an episode of a boy, 8. That burned in a fire. Wayyyy out in the country. A foster child. The foster mother said " There goes $2100 a month". DISGUSTING!!!!

 

[GrandmaBear]

I have seen wayyyy too much of that. Adopting, Fostering for a check!!!! I have my dad to look after. And deal with my own problems.a child is a child. NOT a check. I was watching an episode of a boy, 8. That burned in a fire. Wayyyy out in the country. A foster child. The foster mother said " There goes $2100 a month". DISGUSTING!!!!

Yep. And so many people still think it you need this intensive look and approval to adopt. NOT SO. AND that it brings no money. NOT SO.

Even if you lived with dad and took care of him, you could probably get SOME help but it wouldn't there be anything like what they give to messed up druggies, foreigners, people who adopt, foster, or have 20 children and play the system. Truth. And your hoops and proof to go through would be far bigger than if you were in one of these other categories. I'm not knocking them, heck they didn't make it this way, our stupid arse people who run this world into the ground did so.

 

[Mel70]

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Toxic mix: South Boston death was caused by cocaine and meth, medical examiner’s office says
By GAYLA CAWLEY | gcawley@bostonherald.com | Boston Herald
PUBLISHED: August 7, 2023 at 8:42 p.m. | UPDATED: August 7, 2023 at 9:16 p.m.

An accidental drug overdose killed the transgender person who died at a South Boston apartment complex where four children were removed in June, the state medical examiner’s office said.

The cause of death was determined to be “acute intoxication due to the combined effects of cocaine and methamphetamine,” a spokesperson for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner told the Herald on Monday.

The manner of death is listed as an accident.

A city death certificate identifies the victim as Giovanni Murray, a 26-year-old man described in a Boston Police Department report as a “male to female transgender” person.

The Suffolk District Attorney’s office is “conducting a standard death investigation” of what the medical examiner ruled to be a drug overdose, “as well as a fact-finding inquiry into other issues present in the incident,” a spokesperson for the DA Kevin Hayden told the Herald.

The spokesperson declined to say what those “other issues” pertain to.

The June 17 death at 381 Old Colony Ave., otherwise known as the Mary Ellen McCormack public housing complex, drew conflicting reports from the Boston Police and Fire Departments.

Both, however, filed 51A child abuse or neglect reports with the Department of Children and Families.
What was agreed upon was that the Boston Fire Department and EMS both responded first to a report of an unconscious person at the apartment.

The fire department reported at the time that the person had gone into cardiac arrest from an apparent drug overdose, a matter that police appeared to dispute in a statement it made days after the incident occurred.

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More at link. ~Summer

Just say a PERSON overdosed in the apartment. I see this as bigotry.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

If ya'll want to chat, take it downstairs please.

ETA: I just removed about 30 off-topic posts from this thread. A little CASE-RELATED chat is okay, but if ya'll want to have full blown unrelated conversations, don't do it on a case thread. Thanks.

 

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Boston City Councilor Kendra Lara to argue dismissal of charges related to crash at January court date

The confusion during Tuesday’s hearing lay with Lara’s latest motion to dismiss, which according to prosecutor Michael Luzzo was filed “sometime after the midnight hour Sunday morning,” leaving it …

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By FLINT MCCOLGAN | flint.mccolgan@bostonherald.com
PUBLISHED: December 5, 2023 at 3:02 p.m. | UPDATED: December 5, 2023 at 8:48 p.m.

The latest hearing in the Kendra Lara car crash legal saga was a short and confused one that ultimately ended in yet another date to argue the latest motion to dismiss.

Councilwoman Lara was scheduled to lead a City Council hearing at the same time as the 2 p.m. hearing in municipal court in West Roxbury. While the court appearance lasted about 7 minutes, the city council hearing began 35 minutes late.

Lara did not tell her council colleagues she would be late to start the hearing, the Herald has learned from a source familiar with the matter.

Lara, who represents Jamaica Plain as the District 6 councilor, faces charges related to a June crash into a Centre Street home in Jamaica Plain. In October, charges of speeding and reckless operation were removed from her charges, leaving her with charges of recklessly permitting bodily injury to a child under 14 years old, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, driving with a suspended license, driving an uninsured vehicle, driving an unregistered vehicle, and not placing a child under 8 years old and under 58 inches in a car seat. She pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Following the incident, the Herald reported that Lara had not been a licensed driver for a decade.

The confusion during Tuesday’s hearing lay with Lara’s latest motion to dismiss, which according to prosecutor Michael Luzzo was filed “sometime after the midnight hour Sunday morning,” leaving it several days short of the week’s notice required by law so the commonwealth can respond in writing. The motion was not immediately available for the Herald’s review in the clerk’s office.

It also apparently wasn’t enough time to get on Judge Kathleen Coffey’s radar.

“You didn’t follow the rules,” Coffey said to Lara’s defense attorney, Carlton Williams. “Tell me why.”

Williams, who is also a law school professor at Cornell in New York, admitted the mistake was his and said that it was the end of the semester, he was out of state and he simply didn’t have the time. Following the hearing, he thanked the prosecution and the judge for being “gracious” about it.

Williams said that the latest motion to dismiss is based on the facts of the incident.

“I don’t think any reasonable person disputes that she was driving, either 27, 24 or 22 mph before the accident,” Williams said following the hearing. “It’s our position that that isn’t reckless.”

He said he also believes the charge of recklessly causing bodily injury is “overblown,” as its legal definition has a very specific legal meaning that is far more severe than the cut suffered by Lara’s child in the incident.

“So we’re asking that those charges be dismissed,” he said, adding that all remaining charges are civil violations, like a speeding ticket.

The prosecutors, Luzzo and Joel Luna, are Worcester county assistant district attorneys appointed as special prosecutors for this case.

The parties will reconvene in court the afternoon of Jan. 17 to argue the motion to dismiss.